Quick update from us! Garry arrived home in the middle of the night, as scheduled, about 28 hours after he checked out of his hotel in Moldova. He traveled with Daryl until Toronto.
I haven't been able to update the blog since last week Wednesday evening because I got the boys to take me to ER where my heart was beating 190, which was under control in a couple hours, but I was there for a week while they investigated my heart. I now have pills and a follow up plan, but the tablet I brought along couldn't sign in to make blog posts... until today when I could verify the log in on Garry's phone! Luckily, I got home on Thursday afternoon before he got back on Friday night.
So here's some of what happened the last two weeks in Ukraine. Garry was working on fixing a few problems on the farm, with the drought they didn't have enough food on hand to to feed all the cows this winter. So Garry picked some unprofitable cows to sell, they used the money to buy beet pulp, which they will bag up to help stretch out the hay, grain and corn silage on hand and the brewers grain they can buy. He got our son Matt to balance some feed rations to use.
They are working on using the whey left from cheese making in the feed ration, adding nutrition and not just letting it smell up outside, where they had been pumping it away in a pit. He emphasized the importance of getting the cows pregnant and watching to find cows in heat. It's been four years since we've been there most of the time to supervise what is happening day to day with the herd, and some things were not going as well as before.
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